Reddit is blocking VPN users from its site
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Reddit has been blocking users who are using VPNs from its site unless they log into their Reddit accounts. Why is that? And what to do?

You cannot access reddit without either an account, or turning off your VPN. Effectively meaning that it’s difficult to access reddit privately, as they can either track you with IP or with account.

Even alternative frontends like RDX for reddit by @overdevs@lemmy.world don’t solve this issue.

I can’t believe more people haven’t left because of that.

  • ackables@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    You entirely missed the point of my comment. All the search engines you linked to in the article serve ads to generate revenue. Kagi does not serve ads because they generate revenue from subscription fees.

    Giving money to charity does not mean that you will get customizable search results.

    Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web. Kagi Search instead works for you, the user, and not an advertiser paying for your attention. At the time of launch, we did not know if anyone would pay for their search engine and web browser, but luckily, here we are two years later at the forefront of a movement to humanize the internet’s most-used products and put the user back in the driving seat.

    The first paragraph of the Kagi blog post you linked states exactly this fact.

    Literally no search engine out there is “free”. The “solutions” you linked sells your data to advertisers and gives part of it to charity.